[Echo Talon]

even if she was 12 or 13?

[nickcarraway]

If your twelve or thirteen year old daughter was pregnant, and you could prevent that pregnancy by killing me, would you kill me?

[linda_22003]

It's usually pointless to ask such "what if" questions. Naturally, those who have not been faced with the real situation are going to answer a hypothetical according to their stated moral position.

[MHGinTN]

Start executing the rapists, discontinue executing the innocent alive unborn child. There is no democrat or Republican stomach for dealing with the heinous crime of rape so the 'excuse me' option is to execute the unborn before society has to face the consequences of the rapist's crime ... and to heck with the raped female since 'she'll get over it quicker without a little voice to remind her'.

There is ONLY ONE sustainable basis in our common law for terminating a pregnancy, self defense ... and it applies even in 'incest' and rape. But even that termination ought not carry an automatic death sentence on an alive but unborn child if it is possible to continue the pregnancy to a preemie birth without substantially raising the mortality risk to the female victim of the rapist's crime.